How to use the coffee filter cup? What are the coffee filter cups?

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Coffee filter cup-an important part of hand-brewed coffee

With the coming of the third wave of coffee and the popularity of single boutique coffee, trickle coffee, also commonly known as hand-brewed coffee, has become more and more popular in Japan. It is not difficult to enter the field of hand-brewed coffee. The instruments prepared are about hand-brewing pot, filter paper (metal filter mesh), filter cup and coffee powder. After introducing filter paper and hand-brewing pot, it has also become the protagonist of this article, filter cups of different shapes. Different coffee tastes.

Types of coffee filter cups

With the invention of coffee filter paper and filter cup at the beginning of the 20th century, after a hundred years of evolution and improvement, there are a variety of filter cups and filter paper on the market, not just in appearance. It also affects the flow rate and extraction time so that the taste of coffee is different under each kind of utensils.

Fan-shaped filter cup (trapezoidal filter cup, table-shaped filter cup)

The bottom of the fan is usually one hole, two holes, three holes, the flow rate is slow, so the coffee extraction time will be longer, we should pay attention to the use of filter paper and filter cup fit degree, if the filter paper will fit the lower hole, that may cause the flow rate is too slow to cause excessive extraction, coffee bitterness, so should choose to match rather than fully fit.

The design of this shape was designed together when Melitta Bentz made coffee filter paper in 1908. At first, it was a single-hole design, but later improvements led to the emergence of more holes. Several holes determine the flow rate, depending on the number of holes that each person needs for coffee.

Conical filter cup

In addition to the fan shape, nothing is most common in the market than the tapered filter cup. Most of the difference lies in the groove design of the cup body. The groove is the channel that allows the coffee extract to flow into the cup, so the design of the groove also affects the flow rate. For example, the KONO grooves recommended by many people are only half of the cup body or less, and the filter paper without grooves is fitted to the cup body, resulting in a slower flow rate, which is suitable for coffee with a stronger taste; while the Hario V60 recommended by most people extends to the whole cup body with a faster flow rate, and the coffee taste flushed out is bright and clean, so it is a highly recommended coffee filter cup.

Wave filter cup (cake filter cup)

Wave filter cup is the patent of KALITA, the filter paper used together is like the crease of cupcake paper, also known as cake filter cup, but Wave is used in English, or more people call him wave filter cup, using the fold of filter paper to replace the backflow groove, because the area of touching the cup body is small, so that coffee powder can be extracted evenly, which is recommended by both beginners and players. In recent years, wave filter cups are often seen in hand coffee competitions, and the reason why the market share is not so high is that wave filter paper is more expensive, each sheet is about twice that of ordinary filter paper, which is also a small disadvantage.

Metal filter cup

The metal material can retain the grease, layers and Body of the coffee more than the paper filter paper; the coffee considered by the paper filter paper is cleaner and brighter. The advantage of metal material is that it can continue to be used as long as it is cleaned, while the obvious disadvantage is that the fine powder of coffee is easy to be washed into the coffee, causing coffee powder to precipitate at the bottom of the cup, and if the degree is serious, it will affect the taste of the whole cup of coffee. To solve this problem, you need a fine powder filter to make the coffee purer.

Material difference of filter cup

The material difference lies in the specific heat, ceramic, resin, plastic, stainless steel, metal and so on, which is the effect of locking temperature, such as the production of ceramics is thicker, the temperature control effect is better than plastic, and the temperature maintenance effect is better when extracting coffee. If you feel that the coffee tastes bitter or tasteless because you have changed the material, you may have to adjust the water temperature to practice the sweet spot with the equipment.

The material will also affect the price. If you want to make a good cup of coffee, you need to know the equipment and practice more. It does not mean that the more expensive, the better. Let's practice more!